Re: Apache tiles

Dave,

BTW, Struts devs are planning to merge the tiles code base into the 
Struts Tiles Plugin to eliminate the dependency on the now Attic project.

https://github.com/apache/struts/tree/WW-5233-tiles/plugins/tiles


On 20/03/2023 21:38, Dave wrote:
> Hi Laurent and PJ,
>
> The Apache Roller project still uses Struts, Tiles and Velocity and I would
> like to see the projects continue and move into Jakarta land. I have some
> limited time to help out. What do y'all need help with?
>
> Dave
>
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:01 AM PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Laurent,
>> I don't want to write off the possibility of a Jakarta variant of
>> Tiles joining the Apache Incubator - but the fact that Apache Tiles
>> doesn't have an active community around it is going to be a major
>> impediment. For Apache projects and podlings to succeed, they need a
>> number of contributors to get involved.
>> Could you start by putting your code up on Github or somewhere similar
>> and adding documentation that highlights that you are looking for
>> collaborators? Maybe there are some forums where some remaining users
>> of Tiles can be contacted?
>>
>> There is no impediment to you simply releasing your Jakarta variant of
>> Tiles yourself or via some organisation that you are involved with
>> (e.g. a company that you work with). If you go this route, the ASF
>> would look like to see that you remove all the ASF branding and
>> ideally, change the package names.
>>
>> If you want to avoid having to do all the branding changes and see the
>> new project join/rejoin the ASF, then I think that you'll need to come
>> back to us with more collaborators and probably some indication that
>> they are bought into keeping the project going over the foreseeable
>> future.
>>
>> Regards,
>> PJ
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 06:32, Laurent Schoelens
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I’m working on Apache Tiles porting to Jakarta EE (without support of
>> freemarker and velocity, since both of them are still going with javax API)
>> and my work is going to reach it’s end – all builds are successful, jdk17
>> baseline and updated dependencies (as far as I know) – but still uncommited
>> to my personal github account.
>>> I know Tiles is in Attic land of Apache but I’d which to make this first
>> step (Jakarta migration) go to open-source world, without creating new
>> projects out of the box.
>>> Tiles is a framework I use on a project, with Spring and since Spring 6
>> has migrated to Jakarta API, I’m stuck to Spring 5.X if I stay on this.
>> Changing technology is an option for frontend application but not until a
>> good rework that may take months (or years, depending on time we have to do
>> that migration).
>>> Having a Tiles Jakarta port would be great since the technology itself
>> is working well on my project.
>>> Do you know what can I do to make this properly, according to Apache
>> work ?
>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>> L. SCHOELENS
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